But in his conclusion Ignatieff sticks tenaciously to his basic credo: "Nation-building seeks to reconcile imperial power and self-determination through the medium of an exit strategy" - "empire lite", as he likes to describe it.
"Huberman," he writes, "is the first of violinists for intensity of vision; for the insight into music that comes from life; and for the reconciling power that art gives to a man who has come to beauty from wound of soul".
In both of his best-known books — "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" (1912) and "Point and Line to Plane" (1926) — he displays a remarkable ability to reconcile the redemptive power of art's "inner pulsations," meant to be experienced "with all one's senses" and exacting diagrams of the formal effect of different colors, shapes and lines, each of which he felt had a distinct sound.
Actual power production from the High Dam has been limited, however, by the need to reconcile demands for power with the demands for irrigation water.
By Evan Osnos Can Power reconcile her ardent human-rights interventionism with the "composite calculus" that must guide American policy?
When Congress does not explicitly provide a private course of action, the court reasoned, Congress's duty was to reconcile its judicial power in granting all appropriate relief with congressional purpose.
In a work apparently not circulated during the middle ages, the Breviloquium, Ockham tries to reconcile them: political power comes from God, but God confers it on the ruler selected the community; once rulership has been conferred, the ruler is subject to God alone regularly, though on occasion a community can correct or depose its ruler.[99] In part I of his Dialogus, books 3 and 4 (c.
How to reconcile the compelling power of yesterday with the constraints of today?
Showing signs of suffering the same fate as Minkowski, Desmond telephones Penny, who tells Desmond that she has been searching for him for the past three years and they reconcile before the power is cut off.
The tone of Zittrain's opinion on the case was grave; the resolution will set a precedent that will distinctly alter the way in which the private and public sectors reconcile the significant power companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Google have accrued.
